Van Gogh Exhibit, Amsterdam!

The Van Gogh Museum has the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world. Unfortunately it was closed and under construction so we checked out the Van Gogh Exhibit! Van Gogh, My Dream Exhibition opens daily from 10 a.m. till 6 p.m. in the Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam. The Exhibit represents over 200 of Van Gogh's works of art! Part of the exhibition are seven 3D animations. By bringing well-known paintings from 2D to 3D and into motion, visitors rediscover the works. Suggested movements come to life, new layers and details become visible. Visitors of the exhibitions receive special 3D glasses to enjoy these animations. Below are some of my favorite pieces of work from the Exhibit!

Some of his early work! Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch post-Impressionist painter whose work, notable for its rough beauty, emotional honesty and bold color, had a far-reaching influence on 20th-century art.

After years of painful anxiety and frequent bouts of mental illness, he died aged 37 from a gunshot wound, generally accepted to be self-inflicted, although no gun was ever found. His work was then known to only a handful of people and appreciated by fewer still.

Van Gogh began to draw as a child, and he continued to draw throughout the years that led up to his decision to become an artist. He did not begin painting until his late twenties, completing many of his best-known works during the last two years of his life.

Van Gogh spent his early adulthood working for a firm of art dealers, traveling between The Hague, London and Paris, after which he taught for a time in England. One of his early aspirations was to become a pastor and from 1879 he worked as a missionary in a mining region in Belgium where he began to sketch people from the local community.

His time in Paris! I love Impressionism! In March 1886, he moved to Paris and discovered the French Impressionists.

Later, he moved to the south of France and was influenced by the strong sunlight he found there. His work grew brighter in color, and he developed the unique and highly recognizable style that became fully realized during his stay in Arles in 1888.

Isn't his work beautiful! The French Impressionist was my favorite of his work! Would love one of these for my future home! :)

The boats fade into the background. Kevin interpreted this one pretty good!

Love the bright vibrant colors he used!

The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, c.1888.

The Classic Starry Night! The Starry Night, June 1889, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette, 1885–1886, oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum

Detail of Almond Branches in Bloom, San Remy, c.1890. 

He loved creating self portraits! This was my favorite one! Van Gogh created many self-portraits during his lifetime. He was a prolific self-portraitist, who painted himself 37 times between 1886 and 1889. Self-Portrait, September 1889, Oil on canvas, 65 cm × 54 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Following his first exhibitions in the late 1880s, van Gogh's fame grew steadily among colleagues, art critics, dealers and collectors. After his death, memorial exhibitions were mounted in Brussels, Paris, The Hague and Antwerp. In the early 20th century, there were retrospectives in Paris (1901 and 1905), and Amsterdam (1905), and important group exhibitions in Cologne (1912), New York (1913) and Berlin (1914). These had a noticeable impact on later generations of artists. By the mid 20th century van Gogh was seen as one of the greatest and most recognizable painters in history

 

Together with those of Pablo Picasso, Van Gogh's works are among the world's most expensive paintings ever sold, as estimated from auctions and private sales. Those sold for over $100 million (today's equivalent) include Portrait of Dr. Gachet, Portrait of Joseph Roulin and Irises. A Wheatfield with Cypresses was sold in 1993 for $57 million, a spectacularly high price at the time, while his Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear was sold privately in the late 1990s for an estimated $80/$90 million

 

Article about the stolen Van Gogh's in Amsterdam!

Dutch Word of the Day:
Kunst meaning Art

PEACE & LOVE,
Kevin & Amanda